Episodes
1. Killer Take All
September 5, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Don Durant, Warren Oates, Robert B. Williams, Whit Bissell, Ellen Corby
2. Outlaw's Wife
September 12, 1958
30 min
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
Guest Stars:
Dorothy Adams, Diane Brewster, James Griffith, Richard Crane, Ellen Corby
3. Chinese Cowboy
September 19, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Rusty Wescoatt, Don Gordon, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Keye Luke
4. The Set-Up
September 26, 1958
30 min
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
Guest Stars:
James Griffith, Ellen Corby, Douglas Fowley, King Donovan, Jan Arvan
5. A Stone for Benny French
October 3, 1958
30 min
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Guest Stars:
Wallace Ford, Strother Martin, Richard Devon
6. Trapped
October 10, 1958
30 min
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Guest Stars:
Ross Elliott, John Beradino, Virginia Grey, Lester Dorr, Bill Erwin
7. Matter of Justice
October 17, 1958
30 min
One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims his outlaw gang will kill the witnesses and destroy the town.
Guest Stars:
Steve Brodie, Kasey Rogers, Frank Mills, Ed Prentiss, Regis Toomey
8. Tenner Smith
October 24, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Rusty Wescoatt, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, George Brenlin
9. The Avenger
October 31, 1958
30 min
Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
Guest Stars:
Dennis Moore, George N. Neise, Orville Sherman, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt
10. The Schoolteacher
November 7, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, Jean Howell, Harold J. Stone
12. Sunday's Child
November 21, 1958
30 min
Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order over the objections of Henrietta and the whole town.
Guest Stars:
James Best, Ellen Corby, William Fawcett, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt
13. Day of Vengeance
November 28, 1958
30 min
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Guest Stars:
Michael Landon, Francis McDonald, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Frank Mills
14. Three-Legged Fox
December 5, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Peter Brocco, Henry Hull, Ellen Corby, Hank Patterson, Norman Leavitt
15. The Kid
December 12, 1958
30 min
Guest Stars:
Jack Kruschen, Addison Richards, Ellen Corby, Joseph Mell, Dabbs Greer
17. Every Man a Witness
December 26, 1958
30 min
Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investigate who was responsible.
Guest Stars:
Dick Ryan, Kasey Rogers, Walter Coy, Edward Platt, Fred Sherman
18. McCallin's Daughter
January 2, 1959
30 min
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
Guest Stars:
Ahna Capri, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Frank Mills, Russ Conway
20. Terror
February 4, 1959
30 min
Doc Calhoun and Hoby deal with an outbreak of typhoid fever in town.
Guest Stars:
Karl Swenson, Addison Richards, Reed Howes, Peter Leeds, Jan Shepard
21. The Feud
February 11, 1959
30 min
Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries to keep the two families from killing each other.
Guest Stars:
Gary Gray, Trevor Bardette, Ellen Corby, Norman Leavitt, Jimmy Lydon
22. The Samaritan
February 18, 1959
30 min
Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
Guest Stars:
Chill Wills, Charles Aidman, Rita Moreno, Edgar Dearing
23. The Gang
February 25, 1959
30 min
Guest Stars:
Nick Adams, Michael Fox, Addison Richards, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds
24. The Threat
March 4, 1959
30 min
A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the face of the Earth in one hour unless he is given $10,000.
Guest Stars:
Lloyd Corrigan, Michael Fox, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt
25. Hard Lines
March 11, 1959
30 min
Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for the loss of his arm in the war.
Guest Stars:
Dennis Moore, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, James Coburn
26. Fear
March 18, 1959
30 min
Guest Stars:
Rusty Wescoatt, Peter Leeds, Harold J. Stone, Warren Oates, Barry Brooks
27. Stranger in Town
March 25, 1959
30 min
Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in revenge for killing his brother. Making things worse, Hoby doesn't even know what Keller looks like.
Guest Stars:
Paul Carr, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, James Drury
28. The Protector
April 1, 1959
30 min
Guest Stars:
Paul Brinegar, Rudy Doucette, Richard Jaeckel, Russell Thorson, John Harmon
29. False Witness
April 8, 1959
30 min
A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness and saw somebody else do it.
Guest Stars:
Bethel Leslie, Addison Richards, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Patricia Donahue
30. The Trick
April 15, 1959
30 min
Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he will kill him before he leaves town.
Guest Stars:
Rusty Wescoatt, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, Nick Adams
31. The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
April 22, 1959
30 min
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
Guest Stars:
Carleton Carpenter, Addison Richards, Norman Leavitt, Edward Platt, Anthony Eisley
32. The Gift Horse
April 29, 1959
30 min
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
Guest Stars:
James Burke, Michael Fox, Norman Leavitt, Will Wright
33. The Vote
May 6, 1959
30 min
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
Guest Stars:
James Seay, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, Norman Leavitt, Gregory Walcott
34. The Unwanted
May 13, 1959
30 min
Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
Guest Stars:
Dorothy Adams, Rhys Williams, Frank Mills, John Breen, Walter Brooke
36. Inquest
September 2, 1959
Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
37. Back to Crawford
September 9, 1959
30 min
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sales to come home quick because his sister is going to die.
Guest Stars:
Rudy Doucette, Charles Seel, Warren Oates, Robert B. Williams
38. Blind Alley
September 16, 1959
30 min
Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
Guest Stars:
Richard Devon
